oGsMC The Doughnut Hole

A few days ago MC executed a micro strategy vs Byun which I haven't noticed before, Tastosis didn't say anything, and I don't see anything on the forum although I bet someone has thought about or used this before. What he did occurs most noticably 10 minutes into game 2.

First he makes a lot of sentry then he forms a giant eclipse around the terran bio using forcefields to push them together into a ball and then puts a force field in the middle of it which splits about 15 units into 2 tiny clumps the size of the Collosus aoe. At first I wasn't completely sure if he clumped them into 2 holes on purpose but he does it again later in the game and when I rewatched it and then watched the first game where he does the same thing except he changes the size of the hole to the size of storm so I'm positive he's pushing bio into a ball for aoe.

I've seen this type of mass forcefield play recently from Huk where you don't just use forcefields to trap an enemy in or keep an enemy choked off but to actually completely surround and immobilize an enemy. However, pushing units together and using Collosus and Templar really take it to a whole new level since aoe completely destroys units that have been stuck on top of each other. I think this sort of Doughnut Hole micro will catch on more in the months to come.

10 units were in that first hole, and about 7-8 were in the second. Those 10 units were killed at the same time by one colossus. (and couldn't attack anything while getting hit)

This is really powerful. I believe terrans might need to incorporate more ghosts in the midgame now.

They always should have against a protoss making a lot of sentries. Their only purpose is to forcefield, their damage is pathetic and they get killed very easily, but FF is very powerful. One well played EMP at the right time and protoss gets rolled right then and there. Cloak a ghost, send it in, and EMP your heart out whenever you get a chance to reset sentry energy, it'll make a huge difference.

Yes, I play protoss, and as MC said, FF's make or break the game. We would be totally screwed without FF's early-mid game. You have to keep in mind though, that mid-late game the sentry count dwindles. Protoss is a VERY gas heavy race, and when we start teching, especially to templar, we have to stop making sentries. So, yeah, it's all well and good to speak about this at the mid-game push with colossus when you still have sentries alive, but once you lose your initial batch of sentries, you're pretty much not making anymore because you need all your gas for templar and research.

The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions. - Confucius

On March 05 2011 02:59 Acridice wrote:Yes, I play protoss, and as MC said, FF's make or break the game. We would be totally screwed without FF's early-mid game. You have to keep in mind though, that mid-late game the sentry count dwindles. Protoss is a VERY gas heavy race, and when we start teching, especially to templar, we have to stop making sentries. So, yeah, it's all well and good to speak about this at the mid-game push with colossus when you still have sentries alive, but once you lose your initial batch of sentries, you're pretty much not making anymore because you need all your gas for templar and research.

Exactly. Get a ghost, shut down sentry play in the early to mid game, and kill off sentries whenever you can. Protoss either gets tech units like colossus or remakes their sentries. Either way, it's a win-win for terran.